Bumbunga Lake

We were making pretty good progress to our next stop, then we hit the roadwork. Not a massive delay, but a bit annoying. We had a quick stop at Snowtown and were a little concerned when there was a sign saying 'the big blade'. Turns out it's part of a wind turbine, which made more sense. Bumbunga Lake was our next stop, a pink, salt lake with the famous Loch-eel. Usually the lake is the most pink when there's water in it, rather than when it's dry. We had a bit of both. Some parts far off were very pink, we could see some lovely blues too. One of the signs said there are lots of striking colours - pinks, purples, blues and browns.. we weren't so sure if we'd consider brown to be 'striking' though. The lake itself was huge! We walked down to the viewing platform and realised you could walk right out there, even with some water in it, so we did just that. Pup slowed down when we hit the water, but I wanted to go out to the Loch-eel, so Ben was going to wait for me, but Pup couldn't possibly miss out, so he was adamant he'd be coming too. Walking through the shallow water was weird, as sheets of salt moved over and stuck to our feet. I could feel where I cut myself the other day too. We took some photos and headed back so the other people that were showing up could get their photos without us in the background, since it looked like they weren't planning on walking out onto the lake themselves. We dried off our feet and got most of the salt off pup's legs, he doesn't know it yet, but he's in for a foot bath when we get to our airbnb.Read more